Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-12-31
DOMESTIC.

The rate troubles between Chicago and
Kansas City points continue. Some mana
gers freely predict rate war before the
winter is over.
A corporation of Drogheda, Wednesday
voted to confer the libsrality of the city
upon William O'Brien, now confined In
Tullamore jail.
An immense raft from Nova Scotia is
now adrift in the Atlantic In the course OF
European vessels. Secretary Whitney,
Wednesday, ordered vessel to be sent ont
on the ocean to warn the vessels OF It's pres
ence and if possible to tow it into shore.
The steamship, Dolphin, was sent on the
mission.
The investigation of tho Pennsylvania,
Lake Erie and Western railroad up to Wed
nesday night had developed nothing of a
criminal nature The investigation has been
extended to tho ticket offices along the
lines.
The collections of internal -evenue for the
6rst five months of the present fiscal year
amounted to $51, 1860, 549, being an increase
of 1854 42 as compared with the cores
bonding period of last year.
The steamer SANTANA which arrived in
New York Wednesday reports that heavy
norther swept over the West Indies on the
9Th 7th Sth inst causing much damage. In
all 20 vessels were wrecked.
Further dispatches from various parts OF
the United States Wednesday, show that the
cold wave was very general, covering almost
the entire western half of the country. At
Denver Thursday morning the Thermometer
stood at fifteen degrees below zero, and at
Fort Davis, Texas, snow was falling. At
Milwaukee the weather is very cold, the
thermometer falling thirty three degrees in
few hours. The Mohawk valley, in New
York, has been visited by two-foot snow
fall.
Four persons were killed at Mount Ster-
ling, Kentucky, Wednesday, while going
over a railroad crossing in buggy. They
were all intoxicated.
At Espanola, New Mexico, Wednesday
night, at a dance at which whisky flowed
freely, drunken Mexican shot little girl
and Mrs. Gonzalez, wounding them fatally.
Hillsboro, Texas, dispatches state that two
buildings we're burned in that city, Tuesday,
causing total loss of $4,000. Wednesday,
Joseph Leving was arrested and indicted
for setting the buildings on fire.
A meeting was held in Dallas, Texas,
Wednesday, with delegates present from
every representative district in the state, for
the purpose of consulting how to best obtain
an increased immigration to the state. Com
m1ttees were appointed, and the represent
at1ves of various railroads were present and
stated their willingness to assist.
E. L. Packer, dealer in fine lumber, as
signed conditionally, at Pittsburg, Wednes-
day. He does business of 81, 500 600 an
nually, and slow collections caused him the
trouble.
A fire broke out in Pittsburg, Thursday
morning, and for time it seemed impos-
sible to get it under control. Reports at 3,
q. M, stated that it could be soon stopped.
Up to that hour the loss would aggregate
100000.
A Kansas City dispatch. dated Wednesday,
denies the truth of the reports sent out
from that city, Tuesday, to the effect that
there is scarcity of coal in western Kan
sas, which is causing great suffering among
the settlers. The dispatch states that there
is plenty of coal, and that tbs settlers are
comfortably fixed.
ball pitcher, has signed with the Philadel-
phias.
Chicago s Ct Of sTsur-aay state that
will be advanced from $50 to $50 from the
Missouri river. |
Anthony Nelson, one of the green goods
men recently put on trial in New York City,
was dismissed by the court, Thursday, on the
grounds, as advanced by his counsel, that in
his circular and letters there were no proofs |
that the goods mentioned was counterfeit |
money. |
collision on the Ohio & Northwestern |
railroad Thursday fatally wounded two pas |
sengers and injured several others and the |
train crews of each train. The trains COL |
ided near Idlewild station.
DR.. Ferdinand Hayden, q distinguished
scientist, and widely known as geologist,
died in Philadelphia, Thursday. He occu-
pied more than twenty years in the explora-
ton of the great west, Kansas, Colorado,
New Mexico and other western territories.
Among his publications were "The Great
West, its Attractions and Resources"
mob of twenty men marched into Tom
kinsville, Kentucky, Thursday night, and
demanded the prisoners confined in the
county Jail for burning the town. The mob
was finally dispersed, owing to the firm po-
sition taken by the officers and citizens of
the town.
A special from Abilene dated Thursday
states that there is not word of truth in the
sensational reports sent out as to suffering
in western Kansas.
Tammapy Hall held large meeting
Thursday night, and passed resolution ia
woring New York as the place at which to
hold the National Democratic convention.
Resolutions were passed calling for re-
duction of the surplus and the protection Of
American labor.
Lynchburg, Virginia, dispatches svate that
IN Scott county young man named Napo-
leon B. Temple was murdered by George
Adams, an unsuccessful sutton for the hand
of the young woman whom Temple recently
married.
The steamer Waistland, Of the Red Star
line, now in course across the Atlantic, is
thought to be disabled.
There have been riots in large number of
Russian universities, by students, all of
whom have been suspended.
The American Flint Glass Workers union
1t Pittsburg has sent its new rules to the
employing tableware manufacturers. It is
believed that Rule 2, the rule intended to
perpetuate the union, will not be accepted,